Amusement Quote by Max Ernst

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean…

— Marlene Dumas

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

— Keith Haring

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way…

— Milton Resnick

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is…

— John Constable

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

— Piet Mondrian

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus